Thank you to everyone who has nominated a colleague or self-nominated themselves for the opportunity to be a CCC Council member for the three-year term beginning July 1, 2024 and concluding June 30, 2027. Read more here. As a reminder, nominations are open through 11:59pm EST on Friday, February 2, 2024.  To nominate someone, please email ccc-nominations@cra.org the following information: Name, affiliation, and email address of the nominee. Areas of research expertise. Previous significant service to the research community and other relevant experience, with years it occurred (no more than *five* items). A curriculum vitae of the nominee (link to webpage is fine). A few sentences about why this candidate […]

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is charged with enabling the pursuit of innovative, high-impact computing research that aligns with pressing national and global challenges. Established in 2006 through a cooperative agreement between the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Computing Research Association (CRA), the CCC provides a voice for the national computing research community, facilitating the development of a bold, multi-themed visions for computing research and communicating that vision to a wide range of stakeholders. To fulfill its mission, the CCC seeks visionary leaders — people with great ideas, sound judgment, and the willingness to work collaboratively to see things through to completion. The Council is composed of 20-24 […]

CCC Council Chair Emerita, Liz Bradley, was interviewed last month for a SpringerNature’s podcast segment on Athlete-scientists. As an Olympian, mathematician and Professor of Computer Science at University of Colorado Boulder, Bradley discusses the impact of athletics on personal development, the importance of discipline, and strategies for balancing sports and intellectual pursuits. Bradley first fell in love with the sport of rugby and went on to play on the New England Select team around 1979. She ended up switching to rowing due to a series of concussions that left her unable to play rugby. As a rower, she competed in the World Rowing Championships in 1986 and 1987, finishing fourth […]

The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) recently created a working group on physical resilience. The working group is made up of cyber-security experts from across academia, government and industry with the intent to identify research areas and possible solutions, as well as, advance current approaches to bolstering cyber-physical resilience.  Among the new working group members is former Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council Member Kevin Fu. Kevin Fu is a Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering in the College of Engineering and the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University. Fu served on the CCC Council from 2015-2019. During his time at the CCC, Kevin was […]

Jennifer Rexford, former Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council Member, Engineering Professor and Chair of the Computer Science Department at Princeton University was just named Princeton’s provost. The provost position acts as chief academic advisor and chief budget officer. Rexford will start her new position in March, 2023. Rexford is a long-time friend of the CCC. She served on the CCC Council from 2014 – 2020 where she held an exec position. She was involved in many initiatives during her time at the CCC. You can read several white papers she co-authoring below: Evolving Academia/Industry Relations in Computing Research  (2019) Advanced Cyberinfrastructure for Science, Engineering, and Public Policy (2017) Systems Computing […]

While many of the achievements of AI scientists, especially in the field of language dialogue application, seemed impossible 20 years ago, it isn’t unrealistic to think that AI can perform in ways only seen in movies. AI systems have or will soon have the capacity to execute human tasks like writing, driving, and analyzing data. AI systems are constantly looking and acting more human, so are they becoming human? According to the vast majority of AI scientists, the answer is no. However, Google engineer Blake Lemoine has made headlines in recent days by insisting that LaMDA, short for Language Model for Dialogue Applications, is sentient. Lemoine goes as far as […]